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Fri, Aug 12, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
An Evening With Mark Naftalin
Hook and Ladder Mission Room
Tickets FREE
EVENT DETAILS
THE MISSION ROOM AT The Hook AND LADDER THEATER
- Doors 4:30pm
- Music 5:00pm
- 21+
- FREE CONCERT
*Does not include fees
NO REFUNDS
Thank you to our presenting partners:
Summit Brewing, Star Tribune, The Current, Jack Daniels, Slane Irish Whiskey, The Hive Realty, & Nobool Presents
Thank you to our community supporters:
The Hub Bike Co-op, Moon Palace Books, Arbeiter Brewing, Lake Street Council, Sociable Cider Werks, Longfellow Nokomis Messenger, & 90.3FM KFAI
EVENT DESCRIPTION
An Evening With Mark Naftalin
Musician, bandleader, producer and radio host Mark Naftalin earned international renown among blues fans in the 1960s as the original keyboardist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, with whom he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
Over a career of more than 50 years, he has recorded and concertized with some of the top names in blues: John Lee Hooker • Etta James • Percy Mayfield • Michael Bloomfield • Charlie Musselwhite • Duane Allman • Tracy Nelson • Big Joe Turner • Lowell Fulson • Buddy Guy • New Riders of the Purple Sage • Paul Butterfield • John Hammond • Jorma Kaukonen • Brownie McGhee • Otis Rush • James Cotton and many more.
On the pop side of the spectrum, his piano credits include Brewer & Shipley’s top-ten hit single “One Toke Over The Line” and Van Morrison’s classic album “St. Domenic’s Preview.”
In the radio world, Naftalin produced and hosted over 1,300 shows on three FM stations in the San Francisco Bay Area, including “Mark Naftalin’s Blues Power Hour” (a record show) and live broadcasts from “Mark Naftalin’s Blue Monday Party.”
His current broadcast, “The Mark Naftalin Show,”——now in its seventh year on WPKN-FM Bridgeport, Connecticut——airs on the second Wednesday of each month (4 to 7 p.m. Eastern) and streams worldwide on wpkn.org.
Naftalin has been the Associate Producer of the Blues Afternoon at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and has produced over thirty Blues Festivals, over 200 “Blue Monday Party” blues shows, and many nightclub revues.
“Over the years Naftalin [has] fused the best of blues influences from every era…As dedicated as ever to tradition, but forward-looking in his rhythmic drive and harmonic imagination, he remains one of the most vital bluesmen of his generation.”
——David Whiteis, Chicago Reader
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.